Vikramāditya Prakāsh "The Many Names of Chandigarh: Preservation as Critical Practice"

Thursday, November 20th, 2014 - 5:00 pm, Psychology Building, Room 105Free and open to the public.

Prakāsh is Professor of Architecture, Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, and Adjunct Professor of Urband Design and Planning at the University of Washington, as well as the Director of Chandigarh Urban Lab.

Martha Easton, “One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Women, Feminism, and Medieval Art History”

Martha Easton, assistant professor of art history and museum studies at Seton Hall University has combined two leading art historical approaches in her research, feminism and social history, to explore provocatively a series of previously underappreciated medieval images. In this lecture, she builds on that research, as she discusses how feminist theory has impacted the field of art history in general and how it can be used to think about medieval objects in different ways. In it, she analyzes both religious images, such as medieval illuminated prayerbooks, and secular ones, such as a series of carved ivories with courtly love scenes. Sponsored by the art department.

Buster Simpson "Erratic Moment"

Buster Simpson has worked on major infrastructure projects, site master planning, signature sculptures, museum installations, and community projects. He received an MFA and the distinguished alumni award in architecture and design from the University of Michigan. A recipient of numerous other awards, Simpson’s honors include NEA fellowships and being named the Americans for the Arts 2009 artist of the year. He often melds social and ecological concerns into an aesthetic and continues to employ intervention and temporary prototypes as a way to inform his more lasting works in public: www.bustersimpson.net.

Sponsored by the Reed Art Department and the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

Dipesh Chakrabarty "Climate and Capital: On Conjoined Histories"

Dipesh Chakrabary is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also a faculty fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory and an associate faculty of the Department of English. He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, a coeditor of Critical Inquiry, a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies, and has served on the editorial board of the American Historical Review.

This public lecture, sponsored by the Reed College History Department, with the support of the Art Department, the Dean of the Faculty, and the Dean for Institutional Diversity, is the third in an annual series presented in honor of Wallace T. MacCaffrey (1920–2013), Reed class of 1942 and Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University.

This project was funded in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture council.A hand drawn animated installation and film Two Ways Down, which takes inspiration from the Hieronymus Bosch work Garden of Heavenly Delights. Reflecting on the momentary nature of life, Heit’s fantastical piece uses thrown shadows from tabletop dioramas and a reflected and refracted animated projections to create a fleeting world where human-animal hybrids, specters, and body parts morph and flit across the walls.

Bio:Laura Heit is an experimental filmmaker and performance artist living in Portland Oregon since 2011. Her experimental animation and puppet films have been screened extensively in the US and abroad including Rotterdam, Annecy, Hong Kong International Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film festival, Walker Art Center, MOMA, Millennium Film, Guggenheim. Recent performances of her solo cabaret act in which tiny stories unfold with puppets inside match boxes The Matchbox Shows have included Pompidou Centre, Paris, FIMFA Puppet Festival Lisbon, Portugal, TBA, Portland (2012), REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA., Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA., The 8th Annual Great Small Works Toy Theater Festival at St. Ann’s Warehouse, DUMBO, NY., and others. Two Ways Down premiered at Adams and Ollman gallery Portland Oregon Spring 2014. She has been given grants and awards from RACC -including this years 2014 Innovation Award for this project, Henson Foundation (2009, 2014), ARC California, Illinois Arts Council, Puppeteers of America, Thames and Hudson,The British Council, and the Mac Dowell Colony.

This project was funded in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture council.